Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money . |
| 32 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 33 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 34 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 35 | The loyal few who paid full price at the turnstiles deserved better , but the real losers were Sheffield Eagles , who wanted a tour game and would have used the opportunity much more imaginatively . |
| 36 | The fifth , René Lévesque , likewise recognized for his visionary leadership , was the premier of Quebec between 1976 and 1985 who brought that province to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada . |
| 37 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 38 | All adult women won the vote in 1928 , after partially winning it for women over 30 who possessed some property in 1918 . |
| 39 | Some who had subsequent pregnancies had refused any kind of test , despite in some cases being aggressively pressurised by the hospital . |
| 40 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 41 | You swore to destroy my father and take his castle when he refused your offer for Alice — ‘ t was evil , but no worse than many another who coveted another man 's property . |
| 42 | It is evident that only pre-exposure to saline itself produced latent inhibition and that an aversion was established perfectly readily after all other conditions of pre-exposure . |
| 43 | It was doubtful she carried much money , but even so , could he possibly ignore a lady needing assistance ? |
| 44 | Indeed not ten years old she knew such words ( and the meaning ) as larynx and spleen and rigor mortis . |
| 45 | To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations . |
| 46 | Also for that matter , a tenant hand , a householder has the rights to invite who he wishes into his own house , this one sided dictatorial attitude of the Labour group to determine who can , who can not enter his home is er contrary to my philosophy anyway Chairman . |
| 47 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 48 | This one had both legs and all his fingers , yet you still felt there was something missing . |
| 49 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 50 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
| 51 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 52 | I am suprised they agreed personal terms . |
| 53 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |
| 54 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 55 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 56 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 57 | After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 . |
| 58 | He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees . |
| 59 | For a period after this he stopped inviting Bobby for meals at Lyons and took Eric Verrico instead . |
| 60 | For this he paid ten pence a year at Michaelmas and performed a number of other duties on the lord 's land and paid tithes to the church . |